TensorFlow

Research Cloud

Accelerating open machine learning research with Cloud TPUs

1,000 Cloud TPUs for the world's top researchers

Researchers need enormous computational resources to train the machine learning models that have delivered
recent advances in medical imaging, speech recognition, game playing, and many other domains. The TensorFlow
Research Cloud is a cluster of 1,000 Cloud TPUs that provides the machine learning research community with
a total of 180 petaflops of raw compute power — at no charge — to support the next wave of breakthroughs.

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Cloud TPUs: Built to train and run ML models

Google’s first-generation TPUs made it dramatically faster to run ML models that had already been trained,
but the training had to be performed separately. Google’s second-generation Cloud TPUs
are even more powerful, designed from the ground up to accelerate training ML models as well as running them.
The TensorFlow Research Cloud provides researchers with access to these second-generation Cloud TPUs, each
of which provides 180 teraflops of ML acceleration.

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Share the benefits of machine learning with the world

Our goal is to ensure that the most promising researchers in the world have access to enough compute power
to imagine, implement, and publish the next wave of ML breakthroughs. We’re setting up a program to accept
applications for access to the TensorFlow Research Cloud and will evaluate applications on a rolling basis.
The program will be highly selective since demand for ML compute is overwhelming, but we specifically encourage
individuals with a wide range of backgrounds, affiliations, and interests to apply. The program will start
small and scale up.

Participants in the TFRC program will be expected to share their TFRC-supported research with the world through peer-reviewed
publications, open-source code, blog posts, or other means. They should also be willing to share detailed feedback
with Google to help us improve the TFRC program and the underlying Cloud TPU platform over time.

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TPUs in the datacenter

Unlock new breakthroughs with the TensorFlow Research Cloud

Machine learning researchers around the world have done amazing things with the limited computational resources
they currently have available. We’d like to empower researchers to think even bigger and tackle exciting new
challenges that would be inaccessible otherwise. We hope the TensorFlow Research Cloud will allow people from
many different backgrounds to expand the frontier of machine learning research with new discoveries!